Progressivism in South Korea

Timeline of all mainstream political parties

Progressivism in South Korea is a broadly associated with Socialism, Social democracy and Democratic socialism.

Major Progressive parties election results of South Korea

Presidential elections

Election Candidate Total votes Share of votes Outcome Party Name
1952 Cho Pong-am 797,504 11.4% Lost Red X Progressive Party
1956 Cho Pong-am 2,163,808 30.0% Lost Red X Progressive Party
1987 Baik Ki-wan Quit midway through Independent
1992 Baik Ki-wan 238,648 1.0% Lost Red X Independent
1997 Kwon Young-ghil 306,026 1.2% Lost Red X People's Victory 21
2002 Kwon Young-ghil 957,148 3.9% Lost Red X Democratic Labor Party
2007 Kwon Young-ghil 712,121 3.0% Lost Red X Democratic Labor Party
Geum Min 18,223 0.07% Lost Red X Korea Socialist Party
2012 Lee Jung-hee Quit midway through Unified Progressive Party
Kim So-yeon 16,687 0.05% Lost Red X Independent
Kim Soon-ja 46,017 0.15% Lost Red X Independent

Legislative elections

Election Total seats Total votes Share of votes Outcome Election leader Party Name
1950
2 / 210
89,413 1.3% new 2 seats; Minority Socialist Party Jo So-ang
1960
4 / 233
541,021 6.0% new 4 seats; Minority Social Mass Party Seo Sang-il
1 / 233
57,965 0.6% new 1 seats; Minority Korea Socialist Party Jeon Jin-han
1967
1 / 175
249,561 2.3% new 1 seats; Minority Mass Party Seo Min-ho
0 / 175
104,975 1.0% new 0 seats; Minority Unified Socialist Party Kim Cheol
1971
0 / 204
59,359 0.5% Decrease 1 seats; Minority Mass Party Ri Mong
0 / 204
97,398 0.9% Steady 0 seats; Minority Unified Socialist Party Kim Cheol
1981
2 / 276
524,361 3.2% new 2 seats; Minority Democratic Socialist Party Ko Chong-hun
0 / 276
122,778 0.7% new 0 seats; Minority Socialist Party Kim Cheol
1985
1 / 276
288,863 1.4% new 1 seats; Minority New Politics Socialist Party Ko Chong-hun
1988
0 / 299
65,650 0.3% new 0 seats; Minority Party of the people Jeong Tae-yun
1 / 299
251,236 1.3% new 0 seats; Minority Hangyore Democratic Party Ye Chun-ho
1992
0 / 229
319,041 1.5% new 0 seats; Minority People's Party Lee U-jae
2000
0 / 273
223,261 1.2% new 0 seats; Minority Democratic Labor Party Kwon Young-ghil
0 / 273
125,082 0.7% new 0 seats; Minority Youth Progressive Party Choi Hyeok
2004
10 / 299
2,774,061 13.0% Increase 10 seats; Minority Democratic Labor Party Kwon Young-ghil
0 / 299
47,311 0.22% Steady 0 seats; Minority Socialist Party Won Yong-su
2008
5 / 299
973,445 5.68% Decrease 5 seats; Minority Democratic Labor Party Cheon Yeong-se
0 / 299
504,466 2.94% new 0 seats; Minority New Progressive Party Roh Hoe-chan
Sim Sang-jung
0 / 299
35,496 0.20% Steady 0 seats; Minority Korea Socialist Party Choi Gwang-Eun
2012
13 / 300
2,198,405 10.3% new 13 seats; Minority Unified Progressive Party Lee Jung-hee
0 / 300
243,065 1.13% Steady 0 seats; Minority New Progressive Party Hong Sehwa
An Hyo-sang
2016
0 / 300
91,705 0.38% Steady 0 seats; Minority Labor Party Koo Kyo-hyun
6 / 300
1,719,891 7.23% new 6 seats; Minority Justice Party Sim Sang-jung

Local elections

Election Metropolitan
Self-government
Metropolitan
Council
Local
Self-government
Local Council Party Name
3rd
(2002)
0 / 16
11 / 682
2 / 232
N/A Democratic Labor Party
4th
(2006)
0 / 16
15 / 733
0 / 230
66 / 2,888
Democratic Labor Party
5th
(2010)
0 / 16
24 / 761
3 / 228
115 / 2,888
Democratic Labor Party
0 / 16
3 / 761
0 / 228
22 / 2,888
New Progressive Party
6th
(2014)
0 / 17
3 / 789
0 / 226
34 / 2,898
Unified Progressive Party
0 / 17
1 / 789
0 / 226
6 / 2,898
Labor Party
0 / 17
0 / 789
0 / 226
11 / 2,898
Justice Party

See also

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